- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet; grey stone with cream lines running across the surface, roughly pyramid shaped with a flat top. Glued to one side of the stone is a metal drawing pin. [SB [OPS Move] 20/09/2017]
- Long description
- Amulet; grey stone with cream lines running across the surface, roughly pyramid shaped with a flat top. Glued to one side of the stone is a metal drawing pin. Used as a cure for illness caused through breaking a taboo seven days after childbirth. [SB [OPS Move] 20/09/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1933
- Date collected
- 1933
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Stone
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 28 mm, Width: max 34 mm, Length: max 80 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.2008 Other numbers: A 170085 13782/1936 85
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